About Me

Research interests

Remote sensing, Deep learning, Terrestrial ecosystem & Climate extremes, Physical climate risk assessment, Nature-based solutions

Technical skills

Python, JavaScript, MATLAB, IDL, Machine Learning

GEE, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, Spark

ArcGIS, QGIS, SNAP, ENVI, Photoshop

Hobbies

Volleyball, Squash, Hiking, Jogging

Guitar, Jazz, Indie, Hip Hop, K-Pop

Traveling, Cooking, Analog Photography, Video Games


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Projects

NComms2024

Nature Communications: Scattered tree death contributes to substantial forest loss in California

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EGU2023

Mapping and characterising tree mortality in California at individual tree level using deep learning

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CEE2023

Assessing Physical Climate Risks for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development's Power Generation Project Investment Portfolio

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RSE2020

Fine-resolution vegetation phenology of tropical grasslands in Eastern Africa

The first globally to use PlanetScope for phenological analysis over semi-arid grasslands

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BIGMAP2019

Esri's TRAILS project in collaboration with USGS

My responsibilities: Tested and documented the functionalities of TRAILS platform

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BIGMAP2019

Esri's Green Infrastruce Initiative

My responsibilities: Conducted research/literature review and GIS analyses to generate new indicators/layers and demonstrated the outcomes with Esri Story Maps

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BIGMAP2019

Esri's BIGMAP project in collaboration with USFS

My responsibilities: Developed python packages for cloud-based data preprocessing and time series analysis of Landsat data

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Open Source

PlanetScopePy

A toolbox for PlanetScope imagery. Ongoing project!

PlanetScope imagery pre-processing

Pre-processing

PlanetScope cloud-shadow screening

Monthly threshold-based method

Time series analysis

Hyperbolic Tangent Function

Phenology estimation and mapping

SOS50, EOS50, Peak of season

Blog

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How does the global market leader in GIS look like?

5-month internship at Esri headquarters in California

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Master Git and GitHub in one hour

Wanna get a data science job? Let's first get and Git and GitHub up and running. With this tutorial, you will be learning by doing. Plus, no prior knowledge is required!

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Set up multiple environments for Python projects - better late than never

Save you from endless errors while installing packages and running old scripts. Essential knowledge to grasp as walking towards a professional data scientist.

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Boosting your presentation with Jupyter Notebook

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Phrasebank for scientific writing

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Let's Get In Touch!

chengyan2017@gmail.com
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